I’ve learned all the back roads. Very scenic and picturesque and free of traffic snarls. But I agree the main roads like I-84, I-95 Merritt Parkway and other thoroughfares are as snarled as any Boston area traffic.
Last year I took a cross country motorcycle trip. I was coming back and had to ride I84 in from NY to I91 to get back to Western MA.
This was the end of an 8,000 mile trip.
I had driven through many of the large cities from here to California and back.
The last 40 miles into Hartford were the most harrowing. Cross whipping across lanes with no signals. The traffic would go from 80 MPH to 0 in what seemed like seconds.
Complete disregard for other drivers.
I grew up driving in Boston. So I am used to aggressive and unforgiving drivers.
This was horrible because the CT people were good drivers—they just did not care about who was behind them or beside them. They just used every space in traffic as their personal space.
When I got home I deemed them the best bad drivers in America.
I hate going into CT for anything.
I should add that I have to go down to the Barkhamsted area today and it is beautiful farmland, very much like upstate NY or Vermont. And it is closer to “civilization.”
The area down the western side of CT to Fairfield is nice, but way expensive.